Excalibur How To: Installing the Charger EXT Crank

The Charger EXT is a great add-on for those that, like for myself, I have a little sister, she's going to start hunting soon. She can't pull the full weight back, but this at only 12 pounds, she can definitely crank that back. And I mean, as people age, you know, they maybe can't pull as much weight back, or maybe you had an injury. This allows you to not stop hunting and stay in the game with the Charger EXT. And I mean, let's get this thing installed. It looks pretty simple. I only see two pieces here. So it attaches right here. You see these two little pre-drilled holes on the back here. This is where we're going to install it. They've made it very simple for us. This arrow pointing means this needs to go up, and R for these go on the right side. That's really simple. Same thing on this side, arrow up and left. We'll unscrew this. It's in the position right here. You know, both decocking and cocking silently, you know, you may say, when would I use that? Myself, I've been in a position where I've shot at a deer, and my brother was with me, and there was an opportunity for a second shot on a different deer. So I mean, being able to cock silently is very, very important. There we go. Got that installed there. And I see here, this tells me, yep, so I'm going to just take this, put this over. You'll see this is a little, it says pull to remove. So you'll see this slides in and out. They've really made all that labeling really simple. So I set it there, pull on that, and that's in there. That's so simple. And I see here, I like how these have a place, so they're not flopping around there. That's really nice. They've got hooks there for that attached to. And I see here, they've made this release. So you push that down, it's going to release that string, obviously. And then back here, it says push to cock. So I mean, that's fairly straightforward. So let's cock this. Let's show how this works. Get this table out of the way. So let's just say you got into the stand. We're going to put this into release mode. We're going to pull this down, resting it. I see, oh, that's really nice. That's retractable. It actually pulls itself back up. That's nice. Let's seat this into here. Drag this down. Hooks underneath. You'll see I'm always putting the hooks not over, but underneath this string. So we're going to hook those on, keeping them close to the body there. This says push to cock, and we're ready to cock it. So we're going to push that button, also making sure that this is in fire mode. Safety is off. So click that down. Comes with these two tools. So this is a wrist strap for decocking, so that when I'm decocking it, this thing can't swing around and hit me in the hand here. So let's slide this in. That slides in very easily. So it's in push to cock mode, fire mode. And this should only be about 12 pounds. And you'll see as I'm cocking, this thing can't swing around. It is stopped by that mechanism there. It cannot come around. And this is like, I can hold onto this with two fingers. Like, look at this. I can hold onto this with two fingers and do this. And it comes to the top here. I hear that click. I know that that's come across that. I'm going to put my safety on and click this into release mode. If it won't push down right away, just push a little bit further on that hand crank there. That's released now. And that's just going to come off. And that is extremely simple. I mean, I don't think it could get any more simple. I'm going to pull my cocking aid. You'll see that really nice retractable. I really like how that's retractable, so you don't have to sit there. That really goes into the silent feature. I don't need to sit there and cock that string back up. That retracts right back up. I hook it onto my strings, put it into that push-to-cock mode. And if I was in a tree stand, I'd probably just pull this, take that off, and tuck it in my pack. And I'm ready to hunt. With that off, I'm cocked. I only need 12 pounds of pressure to cock that back. And I'm ready to hunt. Now, that big buck you were chasing, he didn't come in. So you're in the stand. You got to decock this bow. We can do it silently and quickly with this decocking aid. And one thing to note is that you can actually do it from either side. You'll see right-hand shooter, you can slide it in that side. Left-hand shooter, they've made it so you can slide it in this side. So it works for both left and right hand. To begin, you just slide this. Take the inside of this grommet here, slide this in. That's really nice. You'll see it actually just pops over that spring there. That's actually really nice. Slides in and behind here. And I'm going to slide my hand into this wrist strap, which is adjustable. Tighten it up. They've made a really nice strap there so it slides in. Okay, I'll tighten this up. Slide that in behind. They do that so there's no chance of that getting caught in the string or anything. That's very smart. I'm right-handed, so we're going to set this. This is in release mode. We're going to bring this down. This slides into that groove. Hooks underneath the string, not over, underneath. So you'll see those slide in there. And we're going to come up here to push and cock. We want to leave it in the release mode because we do want to release this string. So I'm going to slide this into the right-hand side. And I'm going to have to put a little bit of pressure on this because we need to make sure that we can release it. We need to put this into fire mode, so safety off, right? And this has the anti-dry fire system, so we're also going to have to press that down. So the do. I'm going to push that dry fire system in and pull on the trigger, making sure I have weight on this string. You'll see it release. And then after that, I need to hold on to that dry fire system for just a little while until it passes it. As soon as it passes it, I can let go of it. And I'm just going to slowly and silently let this down, all the way down. It's extremely simple, only needing 12 pounds of pressure. I'm going to slide my release out, take these off, right? Easily take them off. Keeping in mind, this is retractable, which is really nice. I mean, I'm not sitting there once again. I'm completely silent. I don't need to sit there and wind that string back up. Those retract. And I actually notice if I put a little bit of pressure on this, you'll see that I put a little bit of pressure. I can put that in that push-to-cock mode. Those are tightly held into that rod there, into that position. I'm ready to put this into my Explore Pack and get back to the truck and head on home.